Linux is a freely available operating system for PCs: to be more
precise, it is one of many flavors of Unix. Linux is being developed
on the Internet by several thousand people, first and foremost by
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, who created Linux for the 80386
in 1991. Linux is being tested and used by many more (the total is
thought to be in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions).

At the time, Linus believed that Linux was inherently Intel-specific.
A few Amiga and Atari hackers were determined to prove him wrong.